Soli Deo Gloria (record label)
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Soli Deo Gloria is a British
Bach recordings
Cantata set
Gardiner had a successful collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon from the 1980s, but the company was willing to release only a small number of the Bach cantatas which were recorded live in 2000. SDG set out to release a complete set of CDs of the Bach Cantata pilgrimage's concerts.[2] In October 2005 its very first release, Bach Cantatas, volume 1 (SDG101), won "Record of the Year" at the
First recording of newly discovered piece
In 2006, at the behest of the
Other recordings
As well as music by Bach, the label has since its creation published parallel endeavours of Gardiner and his forces, such as a Pilgrimage to Santiago CD (recorded after a 2004 tour following the Camino de Santiago). In 2006 the label made headlines with a CD of two Mozart symphonies, recorded live during a concert at London's Cadogan Hall and released at the end of the evening.[5]
Autumn 2007 saw the first recordings with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London and the Salle Pleyel in Paris during the Brahms and his Antecedents [1] concert cycle. The first release in this new series was in September 2008 and included Brahms’ Symphony Number 1 along with music by Mendelssohn.
References
- ^ "About the cantata series". Archived from the original on 15 October 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ SDG did not duplicate the small number of cantatas released on DG.
- ^ Laura Roberts. "Dropped conductor wins top music award" Archived 6 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine. The Scotsman. ECM Publishers, Inc. 2005.
- ^ BACH: Alles mit Gott. www.operatoday.com
- ^ Charlotte Higgins (7 February 2006). "Look sharp: chance to buy live CD straight after the concert". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
External links
- History of SDG
- Cantatafinder - search tool dedicated to the live recordings made during the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage under the SDG label